Word: sachenhausen
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...Sachenhausen, Buchenwald, and various other Nazi death camps, the inmates were identified by several insignia: Jewish victims wore the tragic yellow star; political prisoners wore a red triangle; green triangles identified the infamous Kapo, criminal trustees who assisted the S.S. guards. Homosexuals wore pink triangles...
...full-fledged counterfeiting plant was set up in isolated Block 19 of Sachen-hausen concentration camp under the supervision of SS Officer Bernhard Kriiger. His team of some 160 inmates, mostly Jews once employed in printing and banking, got special rations and good treatment. By early 1943 the Sachenhausen presses were turning out 250,000 bogus British notes each month...
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